Quote Originally Posted by Sylfaein View Post
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And the best thing of it is that it's really not that hard to incorporate it into the lore of the game. With the reckoning of the Calamity, many children's parents were killed, leaving them to fend for themselves at the Grand Company founded orphanages to house and shelter these unfortunate kids. And since regular folk don't have the chance at the lucrative places in the housing districts since they're adventurer only plots, what better way to give the children loving homes than to offer adventurers the chance to adopt them to their houses and care for them, with the benefit of house maintainance for the small price of giving the child whatever gifts and food they desire on a set basis, and requiring that there's a spare bed for them to sleep on?

Also, this gives Square the chance to model NPC children for each of the current playable races, since we only ever see Hyur and Miqote children right now.